I thought I'd give EB sticks a try (hoping it was just the tub that was gross) but nope...I now have sim-Toll House FISH cookie bars. So gross. In fact, as soon as I took them out of the oven, the whole house stunk like the pier.I have sent a strongly worded letter to Earth Balance. Unacceptable!

Dammit. I admit, I thought maybe everyone was just being overly sensitive about the alleged weird-tasting EB, but I have now experienced it for myself, and I am bummed. It's not just a fishiness - there's also a distinctively plastic-y taste to the last two tubs of regular EB I've had.

I guess I'll be making my own vegan butter from now on. Oh well.

_________________These shitbirds should pay for their own elections if they aren't going to be obligated by any democratic pretense. - MumblesDon't you know that vegan meat is the gateway drug to chicken addiction? Because GMO and trans-fats. - kaerlighed

the whipped can be used for baking, but it needs to be measured by weight. 8 oz=1 cup of non-whipped butter. (if someone has a scale and some whipped, can you measure some out and tell us how much volume 8 oz equals? i'm assuming it's somewhere between 1 cup + 2 tbsp and 1 1/4 cup.)

I will chime in hoping EB ditches the flax. We're big girls and boys, if we want flax oil we can find that by itself and buy it and even add it to our baked goods. I am so tired of food products trying to be all things to all people. It's like a plague among vegan foods right now that they must also be gluten-free, soy-free, superfood-enhanced, sprouted, fortified, etc. Enough!

I do have the whipped now (which is great), but I want sticks for baking and frosting! Although the Tablespoons on those sticks were never labeled properly anyway, so it was always kind of a guessing game for me.

And they don't have the vegan version like we have in Canada? That's so weird as there are ten times as many customers - not just vegans but people who can't or don't eat dairy. I wonder if it's to do with ingredient rules.

i have no idea. maybe they didn't feel the need for competing with earth balance? (and they might be aware that vegans in the US are more likely to avoid trans-fats, so they probably don't want to even bother.)

i have no idea. maybe they didn't feel the need for competing with earth balance? (and they might be aware that vegans in the US are more likely to avoid trans-fats, so they probably don't want to even bother.)

Trans fats are illegal in Canada, and I don't know what basis there is to believe that Canadians are less likely to avoid them, even if they were allowed there.

_________________These shitbirds should pay for their own elections if they aren't going to be obligated by any democratic pretense. - MumblesDon't you know that vegan meat is the gateway drug to chicken addiction? Because GMO and trans-fats. - kaerlighed

_________________These shitbirds should pay for their own elections if they aren't going to be obligated by any democratic pretense. - MumblesDon't you know that vegan meat is the gateway drug to chicken addiction? Because GMO and trans-fats. - kaerlighed

i have no idea. maybe they didn't feel the need for competing with earth balance? (and they might be aware that vegans in the US are more likely to avoid trans-fats, so they probably don't want to even bother.)

Trans fats are illegal in Canada, and I don't know what basis there is to believe that Canadians are less likely to avoid them, even if they were allowed there.

I haven't really noticed much of a fishy taste until last night. I was making vegan hollandaise with The Vegg. Its pretty much just melted EB, vegg and lemon juice. all i could taste was fish, no matter how much more vegg or lemon I added. The fishiness just wouldn't go away, I had to toss it. I was super bummed to have wasted my precious vegg :(

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I just received an email from EB asking for a vote in the VegNews best of contest. I certainly can't vote for them because of this issue. This might be a good time to tell EB to switch back to the original recipe and maybe just make a dedicated flaxseed margarine if they still think it's such a great idea.